Train in Wuhan to Resume as City Restriction Eased after 76 Days of Lock Down

After 76 days of lock down, Wuhan – where the first coronavirus confirmed case was reported – has lessened city restriction by allowing its citizens to leave the town for the first time since January 23, 2020.

According to Reuters report, the first train to carry departing passengers out of the city left at 5 a.m. local time and around the same time the outbound highways were opened to vehicular traffic. Based on ticket sales, 55,000 people will leave Wuhan by train on Wednesday, state broadcaster CCTV reported, citing the railway authority.

Currently there are more than 1,400,000 confirmed worldwide and at least 82,000 people were killed by this virus, the covid-19.

The U.S. still stands as the nation with the most infection cases of 398,809, following by the European countries; Spain, Italy, France and Germany which all those countries have total numbers of coronavirus patients over 100,000.

While the U.S. President Donald Trump has threatened to withhold funding to the World Health Organization over perceived bias towards China. 

Trump accused WHO for getting “every aspect” of the coronavirus pandemic wrong. “They did give us some pretty bad play calling … with regard to us, they’re taking a lot of heat because they didn’t want the borders closed, they called it wrong. They really called, I would say, every aspect of it wrong,” Trump said at a White House press conference Tuesday.